We've updated our news item with the artwork for the Blu-ray release of Part II

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced Blu-ray releases of The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid II for the 11th May. Each will retail at around $24.95. Extras on The Karate Kid will include commentary with Director John G. Avildsen, Writer Robert Mark Kamen and Actors Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, featurettes ("Beyond the Form", "East Meets West: A Composer's Notebook", "Life of Bonsai", "The Way of the Karate Kid"), and a Blu-pop feature. The only extra material on Karate Kid II will be the original featurette "The Sequel", and Blu-pop. We've attached package artwork for both of the films below:

20th March 2010 15:56#4

I loved both Karate Kid 1 & 2. Won't be a first day buy for me, but, I'll probably eventually pick them up on blu. And, to be honest, had the new Karate Kid not been associated as a Karate Kid film, it doesn't look all too bad. I might check it out if I'm just bored enough.

20th March 2010 16:18#5

liono86 wrote: I loved both Karate Kid 1 & 2. Won't be a first day buy for me, but, I'll probably eventually pick them up on blu. And, to be honest, had the new Karate Kid not been associated as a Karate Kid film, it doesn't look all too bad. I might check it out if I'm just bored enough.

the irony is.. had it been titled something else and claimed to be its own thing. people would have then started whining thats its either ripping off Karate Kid or was a remake in disguise. you can never win with the internet kiddies. lol

20th March 2010 17:03#6

This might be sacrilege but I've never seen any of the original films but I do remember going to see the one with Hilary Swank, in theaters I believe when I was a little kid. The "remake" doesn't look too bad, as far as remakes go. Actually looks like Jackie's best American work in years.

21st March 2010 2:30#8

To me, the Next Karate Kid isn't too bad, as it was made, I'm sure, to appeal to the 90's generation and to young girls. The third one, however, was horrid. It was nothing more than a very bad rehash of the first one IMO.

23rd March 2010 14:10#11

Definite Blu-Ray purchase. I have seen the remake trailers and have to say I am optimistic. The whole film was screened at SXSW and it received a lot of positive buzz.

I think the concentration on the title not reflecting the art learned in the film (it has been a topic of discussion across most film sites I visit) is nit picking. Not to mention, doesn't take into account how the general audience going to movies thinks.

Case in point. At a local theater we get poll questions from time to time. Last year we had a survey question that asked what we thought a film named The KungFu Kid would be about. I hunted down the lady who was doing the survey and asked what it was all about. She said they (I don't know who the "they" was) were testing out the title on a general audience to get the reaction. Overwhelmingly (I believe it was like 75%) people thought The Kungfu Kid was a spoof of sport mentor movies. Only a few of us (those that frequent the web for movie new no doubt) knew it was a title being considered for a remake of The Karate Kid.

I have no doubt these kinds of surveys were done across the U.S. and given they stuck with The Karate Kid, the results that were seen in our area were seen in these other areas.

29th March 2010 13:22#14

Horrible artwork. The original DVD releases had the original one sheet poster art. Besides the second one is called The Karate Kid Part II...and as far as the remake is concerned....well Jaden Smith is no Will, and as great as Jackie Chan is, he's no Pat "Arnold's/Mr Myagi" Morita.

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